Rubrik SME
Rubrik SME
Inside IR35 / 4 days onsite
Our client is a leading global financial institution undergoing continued investment across its technology and data infrastructure. As part of this transformation, they are looking for an experienced Rubrik SME to join their Storage & Data Protection function.
The role will suit someone who has a strong background in Rubrik, enterprise backup, data protection and storage, ideally within a large-scale, highly regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the SME and technical owner for Rubrik and enterprise backup technologies.
- Oversee the design, implementation, administration and ongoing optimisation of backup systems and associated infrastructure.
- Manage and maintain backup and storage services across EMEA and international environments.
- Monitor backup success rates, identify recurring issues and drive improvements to minimise and ultimately eliminate backup failures.
- Ensure Rubrik and associated technologies are maintained, patched and upgraded in line with vendor recommendations and organisational standards.
- Ensure backup and storage platforms meet stringent security, risk, control and regulatory requirements.
- Design and implement appropriate operational controls to mitigate risks associated with data protection and storage.
- Ensure data is backed up and retained in accordance with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.
- Manage restoration requests and ensure historical data can be recovered reliably and within agreed SLAs.
- Ensure backup and storage environments meet agreed SLAs, KPIs, availability and resilience requirements.
- Support the development of BCP and Disaster Recovery strategies for new and existing services.
- Contribute to architecture decisions, technology standards and the strategic roadmap for backup and storage.
- Identify opportunities to introduce new technologies and improve the resilience, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the environment.
- Manage capacity and identify potential capacity risks before they impact service.
- Provide technical input into wider technology programmes and change initiatives.
- Participate in audits, investigations and regulatory assessments where required.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive technical and operational documentation.
- Identify opportunities for automation to improve operational efficiency.
- Provide technical consultancy to development, infrastructure and other technology teams.
- Provide day-to-day SME support for backup and storage technologies and assist with incident and request management.
Essential skills:
- Extensive hands-on experience with Rubrik in an enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of backup, recovery and data protection technologies.
- Experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise backup platforms.
- Strong knowledge of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and operational resilience.
- Experience working within large-scale, complex infrastructure environments.
- Strong understanding of security, privileged access, risk and control requirements.
- Experience working with SLAs, KPIs, capacity management and service availability.
Desirable skills:
- VMware / virtualisation
- Microsoft environments
- Azure / AWS or other cloud platforms
- NAS / enterprise storage
- SAN / storage networking
- Replication technologies
- Database backup and recovery
- PowerShell, Python or other automation technologies
- REST APIs
- Cyber resilience and ransomware recovery
- Immutable backup / air-gapped recovery strategies
- Financial services or another highly regulated environment
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